{"id":415744,"date":"2026-01-16T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415744\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:27:09","slug":"knicks-guard-jalen-brunson-ankle-ruled-out-vs-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415744\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks guard Jalen Brunson (ankle) ruled out vs. Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"61719eb2-11c3-4e3d-90c3-0a1319fd850b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> guard <a data-player-guid=\"89519c75-cf8a-38e7-1151-b6247a2d4535\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3934672\/jalen-brunson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Brunson<\/a> has been ruled out of Thursday night&#8217;s game at the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77a8546f-24bf-a333-8161-bf9f75396c49\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> due to a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n<p>He is listed as day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson was injured in the opening minutes of Wednesday&#8217;s 112-101 loss at the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e266c4ea-9af3-1bd8-06fb-fd608fd30e26\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a>. Brunson limped off the court at the 7:01 mark of the first quarter after an awkward step on a pass a minute earlier. He was initially deemed questionable to return but was ruled out at halftime and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>He finished with five points in five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson sat out two games in mid-November because of a right ankle sprain against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"74c23102-8c27-c8e6-ec1b-8a8fd4d42554\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/orl\/orlando-magic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a>. Last season, he sat out nearly a full month after spraining his right ankle against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2876e98b-b9bc-2920-4319-46e6943f8be4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> in March. Brunson also tweaked his foot multiple times during last season&#8217;s playoff run to the Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>The next opportunity for Brunson to play would be Saturday when the Knicks return home to host the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6eade89-5971-0e84-8ccb-cd91482b2b50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson has been ruled out of Thursday night&#8217;s game at the Golden State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-415744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}